Lok Sabha polls | Thiruvananthapuram district to have 127 squads to enforce model code of conduct

Lok Sabha polls | Thiruvananthapuram district to have 127 squads to enforce model code of conduct

Across the two parliamentary constituencies of Thiruvananthapuram and Attingal, Thiruvananthapuram district will have a total of 2,730 polling stations, with a maximum of 1,500 voters in each station. (image for representational purpose) | Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar A total of 127 squads have started functioning in Thiruvananthapuram district in Kerala to enforce the model … Read more

Deposit Savukku Media’s revenue in court, Madras High Court directs YouTube LLC

Deposit Savukku Media’s revenue in court, Madras High Court directs YouTube LLC

YouTuber ‘Savukku’ Shankar Observing that YouTubers do not possess a licence to tarnish the reputation of others by levelling wild and baseless allegations, the Madras High Court on Tuesday directed YouTube LLC to deposit in the court, the entire revenue earned by Savukku Media Private Limited through videos in which ‘Savukku’ Shankar alias A. Shankar … Read more

Four Naxalites killed in encounter with Police in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli

Four Naxalites killed in encounter with Police in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli

Multiple teams of C-60, a specialised combat unit of the Gadchiroli police, and the Central Reserve Police Force’s Quick Action team were sent for a search in the area. “Four Naxalites, carrying a collective bounty of ₹36 lakh, were killed in an encounter with police in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district on March 19,” a senior official … Read more

Lok Sabha elections 2024 LIVE updates | After announcing tieup with BJP, PMK’ Anbumani to share stage with PM Modi in Salem

Lok Sabha elections 2024 LIVE updates | After announcing tieup with BJP, PMK’ Anbumani to share stage with PM Modi in Salem

After taking out a roadshow covering 2.5 km in Coimbatore on Monday, ahead of the Lok Sabha election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid homage to the 58 people who died in a series of bomb blasts 26 years ago — on February 14, 1998, in the city. Amid shouting of slogans “Modi Modi”, “ Meendum … Read more

Morals from Gajendra Moksha

Morals from Gajendra Moksha

Huhu, a Gandharva (celestial musician), was once sporting in a lake. Sage Devla too entered for a bath at that time. The haughty Gandharva pulled the sage by the leg underwater and played a prank. The sage cursed Huhu to be born as an alligator. Gajendra, the king of elephants, was known by the name … Read more

People will not believe pre-poll machinations of Modi-Naidu-Pawan trio: Sajjala 

People will not believe pre-poll machinations of Modi-Naidu-Pawan trio: Sajjala 

Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy | Photo Credit: Government Adviser (Public Affairs) and YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) general secretary Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, TDP national president N. Chandrababu Naidu and Jana Sena Party (JSP) put up a show of unity at the Praja Galam public meeting near Chilakaluripet on March 17, but people … Read more

Stray dog enters runway, creates panic among officers, crew during Emergency Runway Landing test at Bapatla

Stray dog enters runway, creates panic among officers, crew during Emergency Runway Landing test at Bapatla

An IAF officer runs behind the stray dog which entered the runway during the ERL testing, on NH 16 in Bapatla district on Monday. | Photo Credit: T. VIJAYA KUMAR Tension prevailed for some time when a dog entered the Emergency Landing Runway (ELR) on Monday, March 18, while the Indian Air Force (IAF) was conducting … Read more

TDP will not go for debt for implementing welfare schemes: Lokesh

TDP will not go for debt for implementing welfare schemes: Lokesh

TDP national general secretary Nara Lokesh said it was his party’s policy to implement welfare programmes with State revenue rather than relying on debt, while reiterating that the State has ‘‘regressed by 30 years under the Jagan Mohan Reddy’s destructive rule’‘.  Participating in a ‘Breakfast with Lokesh’ programme at Mid Valley City (an upscale gated … Read more

Project in pipeline to conserve eight unprotected temples at Aihole

Project in pipeline to conserve eight unprotected temples at Aihole

Families have been living in unprotected monuments in Aihole and there are plans to rehabilitate them and take up temple restoration. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A portion of an unprotected monument used as a barn to keep livestock, at Aihole. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement In a move aimed at reclaiming and conserving heritage, … Read more

Centre tells NGT no need to bring slaughterhouses under EIA

Centre tells NGT no need to bring slaughterhouses under EIA

The Centre has told the National Green Tribunal that there is no requirement to include slaughterhouses and meat processing units within the scope of the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2006 as the existing guidelines and safeguards effectively regulate these entities from an environmental standpoint. Last year, animal rights activist Gauri Maulekhi approached the NGT, … Read more